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Paul Galburt

I have also gotten such spam on 2-3 different accounts but I have never gotten a picture. However, I have spoken occassionally to the contact person (always female) and they do exist and are helpful - to a point. I have never actually ordered anything.

Miki Bata

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Grant Penwill

I get a least a couple per day (7 days a week) to my personal/corporate email account but we also get them to our general/corporate account. Sometimes I get three to the same account within seconds of each other. This must be from them getting my email from three consecutive years at a trade show. Someday I'm hoping to find that nugget of a product that is revolutionary, but not so far.

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Undisclosed Integrator #3

It's starts as early as midnight for me and get the usuals trickling in after that. What I hate is when they send them to me and they get my name wrong...but I mean totally wrong to where they call me one of my peers names. Wtf! you got to be carefull at the trade shows for them cute little short Asian girls running around scanning badges without a brand or company associated to them.

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John Honovich

Btw, I don't know if it's just me but in the last week my volume of Chinese spam has spiked. I've got almost 10 this morning alone. And it's from new companies, not the usual Longsee/Wodsee suspects. Ugh.

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Jeremiah Boughton

I have been getting a hammered with CVI emails from China lately. Either the company that I bought from, to test a couple out, sold my name and interest or they are skimming these forums then buying contact addresses from a database.

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John Honovich

To be clear, they are not skimming IPVM as we never show / disclose email addresses.

There's tons of ways, though, for them to get emails. Manufacturers are notorious for sharing leads / emails at tradeshows (those girls running around scanning badges, etc.). And I am sure these some of these smaller online shops are happy to re-sell emails for a little more money.

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Luis Carmona

Years ago I personally met a spammer once who said he bought his lists from an employee inside AOL. So they can get them from almost anywhere. I'd trust a small company like IPVM, but your larger ones are a lot harder to control information.

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #6

Automatically translated Danish... Or manually translated by someone who isn't too good at Danish.

Translating the Danish text to English would be something like:

Dear Manager,

Longse a 10 year old professional, No. 1 OEM CCTV manufactur, with 200 igeniør R & D department and 2000 employees. development of new products in agreement herewith to the market.

And yes, manufacturer misspelled on purpose, since the Danish word was misspelled. They used the (misspelled) English word Egineer, so I used the Danish misspelled word igeniør. And the use of herewith is also on purpose, directly translated from the danish "hermed". Any other errors are my own, I think.

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